Tiger Electronics Ltd. (also called Tiger and Tiger Toys) is an American company that makes toys. It is most famous for creating handheld electronic games, the Furby, the Talkboy, Giga Pets, the 2-XL robot, and audio games like Brain Warp and Brain Shift.
The Game.com is a fifth-generation handheld game console created and released by Tiger Electronics on September 12, 1997. It was designed for older users and aimed to combine gaming with early digital features, such as a touchscreen and limited Internet access. The first model included a black-and-white touchscreen, two cartridge slots, and a 14.4 kbit/s modem for sending emails and using basic web functions through a special system.
Nuon is a technology created by VM Labs that adds new features to a DVD player. In addition to watching DVDs, users can play 3D video games and use improved tools for navigating DVDs, such as zoom and smooth scrolling during playback. Users can also play CDs, and the Nuon graphics processor creates matching graphics on the screen.
The Pippin (Japanese: ピピンアットマーク; named PiPP!N) is a technology that is no longer in use. It was created by Apple Computer as an open multimedia platform, meaning it allowed different types of media to be used together. Apple stated that the Pippin was aimed at homes as an important part of the consumer audio, video, and television systems.
The Atari Jaguar CD is a CD-ROM accessory for the Atari Jaguar video game console. During the time the Jaguar CD was available, only 11 games were officially released. Later, some previously incomplete games and games created by fans were made available.
The Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-I) is a type of digital disc used to store data and a hardware system developed by Philips, a company from the Netherlands, and Sony, a company from Japan. It was created to build on the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) and CD-ROM formats, as described in the Green Book specifications, which were also developed by Philips and Sony. The system was designed to store and display audio, text, and images together.
The Super NES CD-ROM (often shortened to SNES CD) was a planned video game system created in the early 1990s by Nintendo through partnerships with Sony and Philips. The goal was to improve the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), which used cartridges, by adding the ability to use compact discs (CDs) for storing games and other content. Working with Sony and Philips, two different projects were developed.
The TurboGrafx-16, also called the PC Engine in regions outside North America, is a home video game console created by Hudson Soft and built by NEC. It was first sold in Japan in 1987 and later in North America in 1989. As the first console of the fourth generation, it was introduced in Japan to compete with Nintendo’s Family Computer.
The 32X was an add-on device for the Sega Genesis video game console. It was given the code name “Project Mars” and was created to increase the power of the Genesis and help move the console from the 16-bit era to the 32-bit era before the Sega Saturn was released. The 32X used its own special ROM cartridges and had its own collection of games.
The 64DD was an accessory created by Nintendo to improve the Nintendo 64 console. It used special disks that could be rewritten and allowed the console to connect to the internet. The 64DD was announced in 1995, but it was not released until December 11, 1999, in Japan.